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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 193

His impatience to marry her, indeed, was so great that he could scarcely allow time for the necessary preparations for the grand wedding which was their due.

Who acts: impatience, King, grand wedding · What happens: marry, be, allow · To what, where: Princess

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (impatience, King, grand wedding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nmod:possnsubjmarkaclobjpunctadvmodpunctcopadvmodmarknsubjauxadvmodadvclobl:unmarkedcasedetamodoblcasedetamodnmodnsubjcopnmod:possacl:relclpunctrootHisPRONimpatienceNOUNtoPARTmarryVERBherPRON,PUNCTindeedADV,PUNCTwasAUXsoADVgreatADJthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXscarcelyADVallowVERBtimeNOUNforADPtheDETnecessaryADJpreparationsNOUNforADPtheDETgrandADJweddingNOUNwhichPRONwasAUXtheirPRONdueADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 impatiencenmod:poss
2impatienceimpatienceNOUNNumber=Sing11 greatnsubj
3totoPART_4 marrymark
4marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf2 impatienceacl
5hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 marryobj
6,,PUNCT_7 indeedpunct
7indeedindeedADV_4 marryadvmod
8,,PUNCT_7 indeedpunct
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 greatcop
10sosoADV_11 greatadvmod
11greatgreatADJDegree=Posrootroot
12thatthatSCONJ_16 allowmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 allownsubj
14couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin16 allowaux
15scarcelyscarcelyADV_16 allowadvmod
16allowallowVERBVerbForm=Inf11 greatadvcl
17timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing16 allowobl:unmarked
18forforADP_21 preparationscase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 preparationsdet
20necessarynecessaryADJDegree=Pos21 preparationsamod
21preparationspreparationNOUNNumber=Plur16 allowobl
22forforADP_25 weddingcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 weddingdet
24grandgrandADJDegree=Pos25 weddingamod
25weddingweddingNOUNNumber=Sing21 preparationsnmod
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel29 duensubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 duecop
28theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 duenmod:poss
29duedueADJDegree=Pos ExtPos=ADP25 weddingacl:relcl
30..PUNCT_11 greatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1marryto-infinitiveKing's impatience not said herePrincessindeed propertyvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2ispastKing's impatiencegreat propertytree rules
3allowcouldKingtimefor the necessary preparations for the grand wedding goal; scarcely propertyvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for preparation=Goal
4ispastthe grand weddingdue propertytree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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